Der Bund (Switzerland) reports – according to the World Bank press review Tuesday – that a new World Bank working paper entitled “How have the worlds poor fared since the early 1980s?” states that the number of people living in extreme poverty has been halved from 40 to 21 percent since 1981.
But without China, where poor people have made the greatest progress in getting out of extreme poverty, the overall results are less impressive.
Two regions have bad results, according to the paper: in Latin America, the share of people living in extreme poverty has not changed at all, while in Africa, the share has grown from 42 to 46 percent.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
